The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-18

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Another very handsome crest on the car
riaee of tine Van Studcnti"kel, consisted Of
towel rack penchant, with cockroach regard
ant. holding i'm h.s heak large red tape
worm on which was inscribed: "Npiriuous
| frumenti. cum homo TO morrow
Some day am going TO get myself a crest.
| [ am only waiting for something To put 1t on.
| IL will consist Of "a monkey with his eye
/ knocked out and a bright green parrot with
| his tail pulled of, and over this the simple
remark: 1--WE have had high old time, or
words % that effect.
Not 20 many cQuestrians were out rs usual
ON the day visited the park, but those who
were ont afforded the Observer beautiful
view Of the park between their persons and
the saddle The equoStriennes were more nu-
merou. aud one or two especially were as
beautiful as anything that nature ever turned
out One young woman, IN neat hitting
| plug haf, looked TO me like Il peri Ii has
! been a cool while nOw since saw a peri, but
! / have always heard them very highly spoken
of. and hope she will not be offended when
she reads these lines and fluids that regard
her in that light.
]
seat with the coachman is growing in favor
for two reasons: first, it shows that You have
butler. and second, you know that while he
is out with you he is not putting paste in the
place Of Your diamonds at home. 50 had
almost said that 1t paste 10 do this.
The automatic or jointless footman Is still
popular, and a young man who has good
| turning lathe leg and an dir Of impenetrable
gloom can get job most any time
There ought to be a book Of park etiquette
printed soon, however, for the guidance Of its
patrons In the first place it should be con-
/ siderej outre for gentleman 10 hire a coupe
by the hour in order 10 recover from alec
hOlc prostration, and then sleep up and down
the drive with his feet out the window 1t is
not respectful, and besides that the blood is
liable 10 all rush to his head.
Drunken cab drivers, too, should not be
permitted 10 drive in the park, for only
little while ago one Of them is said TO have
fallen from his high perch and injured his
crest.
A park policeman should be specially de
tailed as a breath tester TO stand at each ell
trance and smell the breath Of all drivers and
other patrons Of the park let US enforce the
law
But the most curious feature about the ex-
hibition afternoon spin in the park Is the
great prevalence Of mourning symbols,
Almost, if not quite, one-third OF the car
riages one meets is decorated with black IN
every possible way, till sometimes 1t looks
ike "a runaway funeral procession.
Why people should come 10 Central park to
adyerts, their woe by means of long, black,
mourning tassels at their horses heads and
drapei driver, with broad bands of bomba-
Yin, concealng the russell tops Of lis boots,
sometimes dressed in black throughout, is
more than | can understand.
The honest. earnest and genuine affection
OF good woman for a worthy man, alive or
dead. /, too sacred 10 treat lightly, md the
love that survives the wreck and ruin of
gathering years has inspired more than one
man 10 deeds Of daring, whereby he has won
everlasting renown; but the woe that Is
divided up among the servants aud shared IN
bv the horses is not in<,oOd taste; II Is not III
good oricr, and there are flies on II.
Ii Is like saying 10 the world come and See
how ! suffer 1t is parading your sore toe
in Central park, wheI- people with sore toes
are not supposed 10 congregate. IL Is like
widow waiung her woe through the Want
column Of a healthy morning paper. 1t is,
in effect. saving to christendom, come and
hear me snort and see me paw up the ground
I'm nv uaroxysms of wild and uncomfortable
anguish. Ms grief is Of such penetrating
nature and OF that searching variety that 1t
has broken out at the barn, and even the
horses that bought two weeks after the flu
neral. with part OF the life Insurance
money, have gone into mourning and the
coaclman who got here day before yesterday
from Liverpool has tied himself up IN black
bomhazme and takes special delight in adyer-
Using our sorrow.
donot believe that il will always be pop
ular TO wear mourning for our friends unless
we feel little doubtful about where they
went
Black Is offensive 10 the eye, offensive 10
the nose. aud II makes your flesh crepe 70
touch IL. VIII the proOfreader please deal
gently with the above JOkei and viii DO as
much for him some time
But wealth has It's little eccentriciues and
we must bear with them But lac alone Is
indeed rich who does not look under the bed
every nisht for AN indictment. Look at poor
Old Nj Sharp, with his stock OF aldermen
depreciatns ON hi, hanis-men for whom he
paid big price only few years ago and
who would not attract attention now on a
ten cent counter while he don't feel very well
himself
Now, / would not swap places with j.
Sharp and ride through Central park behind
a pair of rip. snorting horses, with mourning
rosettes on their heads, and feel that / must
hurry back TO help select an unpreJudiced
Jury. | would rather hang on 10 the brow OF
a Broadway car till got TO Fifty second
street, and then stroll over to the menagerie
and feed red pepper TO the sacred COW and
have good, plain, quiet time than to wear
fine clothes and be wealthy and hate myself
al the time.-New York World.